fordomatic1 Member 50 Member For: 11y 1m 22d Posted 15/03/13 03:34 AM Share Posted 15/03/13 03:34 AM Now I know this has been covered a million times but there is no definitive answer.In a cold climate will an external cooler effect the ZF because of its need for a high running temperature? Basically I want to fit one but I am worried it will cause damage here in ACT in the winter while it warms up. I am not happy to keep fitting a new heat exchanger as they can go at any time regardless if they are new or not. As my car is a daily im not really interested in paying $1000 fitted for the PWR option.My car will only have 275RWKW once it's tuned, and it wont be tuned higher as its the MRS car.Cheers, Fordo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 15y 10m 29d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 15/03/13 03:41 AM Share Posted 15/03/13 03:41 AM Rock and a hard place Yes cold trans fluid is not ideal Yes pwr is expensive Yes pwr is really the only SAFE option 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe@cms Member 129 Member For: 14y 10m 14d Gender: Male Posted 16/03/13 12:59 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 12:59 AM or this........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellato Donating Members 2,713 Member For: 13y 6m 10d Posted 16/03/13 02:26 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 02:26 AM By not being front mounted means it has less airflow to cool down so actually works more like a heat exchanger than a cooler?I was thinking about mounting my cooler behind the foggy and leaving the foggy in so it still warms up okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 15y 10m 29d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 16/03/13 03:40 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 03:40 AM Those two options are a better choice to keep temps up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe@cms Member 129 Member For: 14y 10m 14d Gender: Male Posted 16/03/13 03:44 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 03:44 AM you'd be supprise in how much air flows underneath, plus I've had no complaints with any gear box overheating issues even after events like power play/cruise where most of the time your hard on the throttle, we have a customer that only dose circuit work & he is coming in to get a cooler fitted we will be monitoring that one & seeing how it performs after each session, in he's case he has the same ventalation to the front brakes as the bute utes do through the fog lights...but we will see.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe@cms Member 129 Member For: 14y 10m 14d Gender: Male Posted 16/03/13 03:45 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 03:45 AM Those two options are a better choice to keep temps upwhy up ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellato Donating Members 2,713 Member For: 13y 6m 10d Posted 16/03/13 04:06 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 04:06 AM I think the OP's issue (and mine) joe is by bypassing the heat exchanger we want to still get the trans up to normal operating temp but worried that by just using an external cooler the temps won't get up (or soon enough) for everyday driving, that's why I was thinking about putting mine behind a foggy and then If I track it I'll just take out the foggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willo88 Member 700 Member For: 12y 3m 4d Gender: Male Location: Newcastle Posted 16/03/13 04:11 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 04:11 AM is that external cooler a kit you can buy joe? I'm looking at doing the same setup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 15y 10m 29d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 16/03/13 04:22 AM Share Posted 16/03/13 04:22 AM Joe u must read the first post lol Sorry lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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